Changing to Losi shocks

[Matt-h]

I am going to try Losi shocks on the B44 then the B4 to see if i can gain better damping.
The thing i'm trying to find out is what i need to do to get a fair comparison?

At the moment the B44 is running;

• 35 wt front 25wt rear
• silvers all round
• piston 2 front 1 rear
• All using associated oil

B4

• 30wt front 25 wt rear
• Green springs front Silver rear
• Ghea piston 2 front 1 rear

the set up works well (although i may go 30wt front on the B44), so i want to set it similar to get a direct comparison.

Ideas?

Matt

[ian h]

I use losi pistons and oil in my ae shocks on my b44 and that works well, think I'm using blue and orange pistons but I'd have to check.

[Stu]

I ran Losi shocks on the B4 all last year, I don't think there was any performance advantage. Red front pisons, Orange rear, 30wt both. Green front spring, pink rear.

I ended up going back to a new set of AE shocks, settings copied from a Cragg set-up sheet from Kiddy, it was then perfect.

I like working with Losi shocks, but I dont go with the hype, both shocks build right work just as well.

[team furious]

i use TRF501x 4wd shocks on my b44 with 25w and 30w they work very well on my b44

[/tobys]

On the B44, try:

Front
Red Piston
Green or Blue Spring (blue is a similar rate to AE silver)
40wt AE oil

Rear
Orange Piston
Pink Spring
30wt AE oil

Shocks mounting holes as per AE shocks.

Not sure if its 100% necessary, but I run the AC rear shock tower as this has an additional set of holes to accomodate the longer Losi shocks (run the long rear bodies from XX4 with the 'regular' shafts from the XXX). You'll also need some Losi shock bushings as the AE ones are a smaller diameter and won't work.

Losi shocks are much easier to work on and you can often reuse the oil when changing pistons/internal spacing, which is not possible on the AE shocks. Personally, I find them much easier to work with and they certainly don't perform any worse than the AE - but I didn't find that 'quantum leap' in performance that I was half expecting.

[Matt-h]

thanks guys.

i am hoping for more consistency from the Losi's.
The AE's seem to go off on the right rear corner due to the high speed sweeper.

Matt